We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image